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Laid-off Lab Technician. Joined the Other 48.6 Million Uninsured in 2010 (before healthcare reform)
(Interview 9/2010. Oil on linen 40 ins. x 30 ins. ) Update 2021 Some paintings paint themselves. This is one of them. Sometimes the paint...
Husband's Employer-Based Insurance Ended. Joann Left Uninsured, Untreated, Nearly Blind in One Eye
(Interview 2/2011. Oil on linen, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 Joann died in 2021 from congestive heart failure. She was 75. Her...
Self-Employed, Uninsured and No Way to Get Health Insurance (Before the Affordable Care Act)
(Interview 3/2010. Oil on canvas 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) created a safety net for people like...
Married Friend for his Health Benefits.(Affordable Care Act not yet law)
(Interview 2/2011. Acrylic on linen, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 I thought I had seen everything. In 2011 I was still naive. My dismay...
Laid-off. Lost Health Insurance. No Way to Treat Heart Condition until Affordable Care Act
(Interview 10/2010. Oil on linen, 40 ins. x 30 ins. ) Update 2021 I've reviewed all Art As Social Inquiry's stories for this website....
Uninsured, Unchecked Ulcerated Mole, Malignant Melanoma, Returned to Canadian Healthcare Too Late
(Interview w/ family 6/2010. Oil on linen, 40 ins. x30 ins.) UPDATE 2021 One thing emerges from all the 2021 death portrait story...
Pregnant Young Woman. No Access to Prenatal Care. Dead at 24.
(Interview w/ family 11/2010. Oil on linen, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 Jenny died in 2009. The Affordable Care Act had not yet become...
Cancer History. Uninsurable on the Individual Market before the Affordable Care Act
(Interview 6/2009. Oil on canvas, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 My sweet friend died in May 2012. Rest in peace, Nick. Forgive me....
Subject Entered a Lottery for Health Insurance. 47,000 Winners. Over 400,000 on Waiting List
(Interview August 2010. Oil on canvas, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 AdultBasic was part of the healthcare mishmash in Pennsylvania from...
Feared COBRA Lapsing. Knew She'd Be Uninsurable. (Before Affordable Care Act passed)
(Interview 6/2010. Oil on canvas, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 I wasn't sure about this painting after I finished it. I knew I captured...
Early Death due to Insulin Rationing (before healthcare reform)
(Interview w/ Courtney’s mother, 3/ 2010. Oil on canvas, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 Only once did a family reject my request to paint...
Children are Dependents on Parents' Policies
(Interview 7/2009. Oil on canvas, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) How it started... Update 2021 Alex was one of my very first subjects for ASI's...
Good Job. Good Health Benefits. Insurance is Tethered to Employment
(Interview 2/2010. Oil on canvas, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 Good Lord. What was I thinking? A one word portrait story? Hmmm...I...
Lost Health Insurance After a Divorce. Scrambling to get General Anxiety Order Treated in 2010
(Interview June 2010. Oil on canvas 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 I tracked him down on the internet. Up to a point. He bid farewell on...
Pasture-Based Pregnant Farmer. Medicaid before the Affordable Care Act
(oil on canvas, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) (Interview 1/2010) Update 2021 I grew to love this painting over the years. I didn't love it at first....
Uninsured before The Affordable Care Act. She "waited out" her symptoms hoping they would pass.
(Interview 4/2009. Oil on canvas 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 This is another very early painting in Art As Social Inquiry's Healthcare...
Former Small Business Owner, age 55 (aka The Sweater)
(Interview 2009. il on canvas 40 ins. x30 ins.) Update 2021 I value this painting as a marker in this painter's development. There are...
Adult Child Stays on his Parents' Family Policy. Thanks, Obamacare!
(Interview 2009. Oil on linen, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 Today, adult children are able to stay on their parents' family health...
2008 College Graduate - Aged out of family's health plan. New health law said he could go back on.
(Interview 2009, oil on canvas, 40 ins. x 30 ins. ) Update 2021 Oh that hair! In 2008 my son came home from college with his thick,...
Americans Don't Understand Their Health Insurance Coverage
Interview 6/2009. Oil on linen 40 ins. x 30 ins. Oil on canvas 40 ins. x 30 ins. I repainted John (top picture). This portrait (above)...
My Abortion Story
(oil on canvas, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) I had an abortion. I’m sharing my story to bear witness for all the women who have ever had to make...
Fell off Subsidy Cliff (before the American Rescue Plan ended it -- temporarily)
(Interview April 2021) (oil on canvas, 48” x 48”) Update 2022 This portrait consists of 2 paintings. One stays in the Art As Social...
Enough
(oil, acrylic on canvas, 48 ins. x 60 ins.) “Enough” hangs upside down until President Trump no longer occupies the White House. Once...
Big World, Small Man
(oil on canvas, 36 ins. x 72 ins.) This painting “Big World Small Man” is my response to Donald Trump as President of the United States...
Nuclear Trump
(oil on canvas, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) This painting is a thank you to Republican heroes, both high profile public servants and citizen...
I'm With Her
(30 ins. x 40 ins., oil on canvas) Hillary Clinton faced Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election. She won the popular vote but...
Corey
(Oil on canvas, 72 ins. x 36 ins.) (Interview with Corey’s parents, 4/ 2014) Update 2021 I was saddened to see that a lot of the links...
Dina Nina
(oil on linen, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) (Interview 5/2015) Artist’s Note (2015) Dina Nina Martinez is a transgender woman. Her journey to...
Nam. Can We Stop Now?
(47 ins. x 46 ins., acrylic on paper ) This painting is about examining/feeling the past so we are free to make peace in the present. We...
"I went into hemorrhagic shock in the ambulance."
(oil on canvas , 36 ins. x 72 ins.) (Interview 8/2015) 2021 Update Alec went on to cofound the Denver Justice Project, " a coalition...
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